My other Photography

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#1

While not goofing off and making cylon pics, i like to scour the bay area for strange events or interesting art to take pictures of.

Some of the stuff here will be generally NSFW, but should be teen safe.

This set is from a Burlesque show i went to last night (NSFW):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/sets/72157606607956523/

This is a set of grafitti from the mission district in san francisco:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/sets/72157606331801424/

Here is a set of my lovely girlfriend:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/sets/72157606022943110/

Here is a set with an epic cardboard tube battle:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/sets/72157606027196435/

and here is my general photo stream where you’ll find everything else:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/

#2

Nice stuff, Tim. I love the graffiti, and the Wall-E costume. And you’re right, your GF is lovely.

#3

thank you kindly.

It was a crazy weekend of alcohol and drugs and burlesque. So there are a bunch more pictures in the burlesque group. NSFW reminder.

also a suggestion: Bars with lots of crazy crap on the walls including skeletons and giant lizard men are a very strange place to do psilocybin. Enter at your own risk. I was convinced i was in a cantina in a vaudevillian afterlife.

but i still got some good pictures.

#4

Why the first pick of the tube battle gotta be Cap tribute T_T I’mma cry

#5

I just picked up a DSL and broke it in at the san francisco Zombie flash mob.

click for braaaaains

http://www.flickr.com/photos/captaintim/sets/72157606775063165/

#6

Trying out a new thing called tilt shift fakery. This ones not done yet, but burring isn’t right on all the buildings, but the faked depth of field and blown out colors makes this picture of san francisco look like mr rogers neighborhood. I took this pic on the hill next to my work.

#7

That’s pretty cool! Is this a feature of your camera or is it a form of digital image editing?

#8

Its something you can do with a fancy enough lens, or you can just use photoshop.

You can find step by step tutorials by googling fake tilt shift, but here’s the basics:

You make a gradient mask that will allow you to blur the top and bottom of the photo. Then you run a lens blur, then you use the color controls to blow out the saturation and make it look fakey. Also, if i want my pic to be accurate i would blur the buildings in the background all the way down to the base since they’d technically be out of the depth of field. but I didn’t have time last night. So i’ll update this pic later.

But yeah, the longest thing about doing this is waiting for your computer to chug out the lens blur filter. The biggest trick is getting the right picture to apply the effect to.

#9

Yeah - you lost me at “gradient mask that will allow…” :smiley:

#10

WikiP to the rescue.

#11

No Photoshop, no patience, no cool photography effects. :slight_smile:

#12

http://flickr.com/photos/captaintim/3101211710/

tossed rubiks cube in a park.